Provincial News

WINNIPEG — Buses carrying residents from the northern city of Flin Flon were being loaded up Wednesday morning, preparing to bring them back after a menacing wildfire forced thousands to flee weeks earlier.

TORONTO — Seventy-two people have fallen ill after eating salami recalled due to possible salmonella contamination.

A man who lit a homeless woman on fire in Saskatchewan is going back to prison. Leslie Black was sentenced to 16 years for attempted murder in the 2014 bludgeoning, burning and sexual assault of Marlene Bird in Prince Albert, Sask.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has hired a former journalist to lead a trade office in Washington, D.C.

REGINA — Saskatchewan's Crown corporations are reporting consolidated net earnings of $510 million for this year, slightly lower than last year.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the provincewide state of emergency has been lifted as the danger from wildfires recedes. He announced Monday that while the emergency rules are no longer needed, crews remain vigilant as fires rage.

WINNIPEG — A well-known cave-like tunnel that attracts boaters to eastern Manitoba has reopened thanks to some ingenuity involving a backhoe, a grappling bucket and a crew removing fallen rock from a tight, gorge-like opening.

REGINA — A Regina chiropractor was sentenced Monday to 15 months in the community for sexually assaulting a patient.

TORONTO — Blame the heat dome hanging over Ontario and Quebec for some of the strange weather hitting other parts of the country.

VANCOUVER — Thirteen seasons into his CFL career, Zach Collaros isn't taking football for granted.